Written by a team of highly experienced and successful executive leadership consultants, this book offers 10 data-driven insights regarding leadership effectiveness, accompanied by practical and easy-to-implement recommendations that directly serve the development of leadership ability.What makes How Leaders Improve: A Playbook for Leaders Who Want to Get Better Now markedly different from and better than the scores of other books on the topic of leadershi...

Advance praise for Carrots and Sticks Don't Work:"Paul Marciano provides a wealth of prescriptive advice that absolutely makes sense. You can actually open the book to any chapter and gain ideas for immediate implementation." -- Beverly Kaye, coauthor of Love 'Em or Lose 'Em"This book should be in the hands of anyone who has to get work done through other people! It's an invaluable tool for any manager at any level." -- John L. Ri...

“High Performance Team Coaching (HPTC) is a fantastic resource and a ‘must read’ for all Team Leaders and Coaches. The authors demystify the concepts of creating and sustaining high performance teams and how to lead and coach them. Built upon solid research and investigation along with practical and relevant action steps, it is a resource that will help move your team from average or good, to high performance in any context.” - Lillas Marie Hatala and Richard Hatala, Co-authors of Integrative...

Innovation is a key source of competitive advantage, but it remains frustratingly elusive for many organizations. This book shows you how to close the innovation gap by making individuals and organizations systematically and sustainably innovative. You will learn how to embrace a culture of innovation and make it permeate every level of the organization. You will find a clear road map and practical tools to redefine your workplace's culture, identify and tap into the existing innovative in...

Go from manager to coach--and motivate your staff to unprecedented success!Since the original publication of this classic guide, organizations have recognized that sales coaching is a sales manager's most important role. Now, author Linda Richardson has completely updated and revised Sales Coaching to include the latest tools and techniques, as well as a refined sales coaching process for increasing performance.Sales Coaching will help you...

"With this extensively upgraded second edition, Dean Anderson and Linda Ackerman Anderson solidify their status as the leading authorities on change leadership and organizational transformation. This is without question the most comprehensive approach for leaders who are serious about making change a strategic discipline."—Jim Kouzes, Author, The Leadership Challenge and The Truth About LeadershipA comprehensive look at what it really takes...

Authors Scott J. Allen and Mitchell Kusy redefine what we think of as traditional leadership in this tangible book that ascribes flexible yet concrete and proven actions to what can be a very abstract term.Rather than delving into lengthy exposition and analysis to help you understand what leadership is and how to develop it for yourself, this practical book enables you to design a straightforward system tailored to your team and organizational needs.Free o...

Managing people just got easierThe book gives you a sound understanding of the concept of people management; the role of people managers; people motivational theories; the various people management styles and their appropriateness; the tools available to people managers to help them do their jobs effectively; techniques for managing performance; and an insight into how people managers candevelop their teams.Management, along with leadership, is one of the mo...

Successful job seekers have two major skills their competitors don't: the psychological endurance to approach job opportunities fearlessly, and the ability to adapt to a variety of situations to position themselves as each interviewer's dream candidate. Fearless Job Hunting offers these powerful psychological techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and reveals the strategies decision makers in top corporations use to find and hire exceptional employees.T...

Understand all the aspects of becoming an executive coach, from acquiring training to marketing your practice, with Executive Coaching: Building and Managing Your Professional Practice. Hands-on information on topics like acquiring the right training and making the transition from other fields is written in an accessible manner by a successful and experienced coach. Whether you’re a novice or an established coach looking to expand your practice, you will benefit from the step-by-s...

Are you a high potential? Your managers and HR department are constantly wondering that about you—and assessing whether or not you have what it takes to advance. Here’s how to get them to answer yes.Reveals what organizations typically don’t tell their people and makes sense of what is usually a mysterious and confusing process for aspiring leaders and ambitious people inside organizations.Helps aspiring leaders figure out whether or not they are perceived as a high...

Praise for From Therapist to Coach"This book is very practical and helpful to the therapist who wants to make a change and feels a bit overwhelmed with the possibilities. The section on choosing a niche was illuminating and very exciting to me. I found it helpful to have the training options outlined so clearly, and the marketing section was extremely useful as well."—Shelley R. Cohen, LCSW, Beverly Hills, CA"This book has s...